Sashikumar Subramani

Sashikumar Subramani

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Sashikumar Subramani Biography

Sashikumar Subramani is a south Indian film actor, who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He mostly plays supporting roles on big screen, apart from a few lead roles. He is quite successful as a television actor too. Till now he has acted in around 25 movies belonging to different genres, and is best known for the supporting roles he played in Thalaimuraigal, Nala Damayanthi, Kannathil Muthamittal etc. His role as a suicide bomber in 2002 movie Kannathil Muthamittal earned him initial recognition and also helped him to earn more roles from Tamil cinema, including lead ones. He started acting with small roles in television in the mid-1990s before joining Tamil cinema.

 

Sashikumar Subramani, better known as Sashi Kumar, hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. He belonged to a Brahmin family. His father is a Tamil Iyer from Kerala and mother also a Namboodiri (a derivative of Brahmin). Since younger days he showed deep interest in acting. He schooled at Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, and later completed his mechanical Engineering degree. After that he started visiting famous film directors of Tamil at their homes and shooting locations, in hope to get a film role.

 

Failed to get an offer from films, he joined television industry. He worked as an editor in Jaya TV in the mid-1990s. He got acquainted with cinematographer Sakthi Saravanan and director Raja Pandi, and with their help he managed to get small roles for television serials. As a television actor, he gained recognition and success through the shows of Balu Mahendra, who rejected him multiple times before. The actor improvised better and managed to impress Balu and later appeared in a series of TV shows directed by Balu Mahendra. He acted in the popular serial Chitthi with Radhika Sarath Kumar.

 

Published: September 17, 2018

Updated: September 17, 2018

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